First shipments of Colombian organic avocados arrive
One grower shipper has just brought in its first organic Colombian avocados into the U.S. this week.
Brian Gomez, president and founder of Greenfruit Avocados, at the first avocado tree planting in Colombia.
In 2018, Greenfruit Avocados LLC. of Newport Beach, CA planted 400 hectares of avocados. “It’s mostly organic. We planted and grew through a biodynamic method—that means everything we’ve grown there can be certified organic. I don’t know if we’ll bring it all in under organic though,” says Dan Acevedo of Greenfruit. He notes there’ll are a few windows in which the fruit will be shipped—from now until early March and then early May to the end of July and then finally from October to the end of the year.